{"id":4457,"date":"2026-06-02T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:02:44","slug":"chief-hamusonde-mourns-paramount-chief-mpezeni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4457","title":{"rendered":"Chief Hamusonde mourns Paramount Chief Mpezeni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Chief Hamusonde VII of the Lundwe people of Bweengwa in Monze district has joined the nation in mourning the passing of Paramount Chief Mpezeni IV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Chief Hamusonde described the death of Paramount Chief Mpezeni as a great loss to both the Ngoni people and the nation at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The traditional leader said the late Paramount Chief distinguished himself throughout his reign as a champion of culture, unity and peace that earned him admiration and respect from people across Zambia and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He further said the late traditional leader is a great son of the soil whose legacy will continue to inspire future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This is contained in a statement issued to ZANIS by the Publicity Chairperson of the Lwanza Traditional Ceremony, Mike Munkombwe.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Hamusonde VII of the Lundwe people of Bweengwa in Monze district has joined the nation in mourning the passing of Paramount Chief Mpezeni IV. Chief Hamusonde described the death of Paramount Chief Mpezeni as a great loss to both the Ngoni people and the nation at large. The traditional leader said the late Paramount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnewsright","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4458,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions\/4458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}